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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Could You Spot 
a Potential School Shooter?
Alan Caruba
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Coming in hot -   The Iowa x-factor is Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is an evangelical heartthrob and making a direct appeal for libertarian-leaning GOPers as well. He arrives packing a bit of baggage. A controversy has brewed up around Cruz’s visit to the home of a gay New York billionaire. On Monday, Cruz spoke at a reception hosted by hotel moguls Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass. Cruz reportedly spoke with the two about support for Israel, an issue on which they all agree. Cruz attacked the NYT for suggesting he was, as a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage, being hypocritical. And as if to show his seriousness on the subject, Cruz has reportedly now filed a Senate bill to forbid same-sex marriage through a constitutional amendment.  There was also a kerfuffle over the fact that Cruz was the only senator to miss the vote on the confirmation of Loretta Lynchas attorney general.  -Fox News 

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 Ferocious nObamaCare fight looming for Sixteeners -   TPM: “The Senate's top five Republican leaders have cosponsored legislation to extend until 2017 the nObamacare insurance subsidies that may be struck down by the Supreme Court this summer. The legislation, offered by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), one of the most politically vulnerable Senate incumbents in 2016, would maintain the federal HealthCare.gov tax credits at stake in King v. Burwell through the end of August 2017. The bill was unveiled this week with 29 other cosponsors, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY) and his four top deputies, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), John Thune (R-SD), John Barrasso (R-WY) and Roy Blunt(R-MO). Another cosponsor is Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the chairman of the conference's electoral arm.”  -Fox News 

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 A fabulous Fred Barnes lede -   Weekly Standard: “In 1974, Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek criticized those who believed they could measure the real-world impact of economic theories with scientific precision. They were wrong, Hayek said in his Nobel lecture, entitled ‘The Pretence of Knowledge.’ They didn’t have enough solid information. What they lacked couldn’t be reduced to a number. It wasn’t quantifiable. Yet economists continued to ‘proceed on the fiction that the factors which they can measure are the only ones that are relevant.’ It might seem a stretch, but Hayek’s insight applies to politics, and notably to the 2016 presidential campaign.”  -Fox News 

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 CHARLES KOCH MAKES HIS CASE  
USA Today: “Charles Koch and his industrial empire are mounting an aggressive new defense of his company and his political advocacy, with the billionaire insisting his work to help elect Republicans is rooted in his decades-long quest to ‘increase well-being in society.’ ‘We are doing all of this to make more money?’ Koch said of charges that his drive to limit government's power will increase his bottom line. ‘I mean, that is so ludicrous...I don't know how they can say that with a straight face,’ he said...His comments came during an interview with USA TODAY in his office at Koch Industries, where he discussed a wide range of topics - from the nearly daily death threats against him to what he termed the ‘hysteria’ in some quarters about global warming.”  
-Fox News 

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 SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE TO RIDE IT OUT  
A wardrobe malfunction at a horse race left spectators with an eyeful of one of the participants, and no, not the horse. The Mirror tells us of Australian jockey Blake Shine who had the elastic in his pants snap halfway through a race. Determined to stay the course, he continued racing with his rear end in the air for all to see. Despite his determination, however, he did not win. Blake took it all in stride. At least it wasn’t during a Super Bowl halftime show.  
-Fox News 

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 Full Video - The Tangled Clinton Web • Clinton Cash  

(commoncts.blogspot.com) - Fox News Special. Investigation into the blurred relationships between the Clinton Foundation and the actions of Bill and Hilly Clinton on their  behalf...Special Fox documentary that nails the Clinton's lies, corruption, deceit and greed. .

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 Opening Statement Hilly Clinton Worst President For America  
(gopthedailydose.com) - “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host Judge Jeanine Pirro declared Hilly Clinton “the worst possible choice” for president...Pirro said, “Hilly Clinton would be, without a doubt, hands down, the absolute best CEO of a public company. Ruthless, profit-driven, and all about the money. But if you’re looking for a different kind of CEO, one to run the greatest nation on earth, and bring back America, now teetering on the brink of socialism, to be President of the United States, Hilly Clinton is the worst possible choice…this woman only cares about herself, money, her next step up the political ladder, and if president, will only care about her legacy.”     http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/26/watch-judge-jeanine-pirro-opening-statement-hillary-clinton-worst-president-for-america/
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Restrain the Judges
 RESTRAIN THE JUDGES  
(restrainthejudges.com) - The Supreme Court has announced that it will be issuing a ruling on marriage by June of this year. In order to prevent the Roe v. Wade of Marriage, we must act now...With the click of a button, you can mail a printed, personalized "Restraining Order" to the Supreme Court and every member of Congress with the message: We the people of the United States affirm our right to self-governance and hereby issue a Restraining Order to the United States Supreme Court and our Federal Courts who would attempt to further usurp:       http://restrainthejudges.com/
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 Republicans Turning Against Legal Immigration  
(ixthisnation.com) - For the last decade, the immigration debate has centered around those who come to our country illegally and what should be done about them once they’re here...But while that battle rages on, some Republicans have decided that merely limiting illegal immigration is not enough. Both Senator Jeff Sessions and likely 2016 presidential candidate Scott Walker have proposed putting strict limits on legal immigration as well. “The next president and the next congress,” said Walker, “need to make decisions about a legal immigration system that’s based on, first and foremost, protecting American workers and American wages…we need to have that be at the forefront of our discussion going forward.”     http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/republicans-turning-against-legal-immigration/
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 Red ink could kill Covered California  
(ocregister.com) - After two previous extensions, the open enrollment period for Covered California ends April 30. That deadline just might prove to be the tipping point for the state’s two-year-old health insurance exchange...That’s because this is the year Covered California is supposed to become completely self-sustaining. Indeed, there’s no more money coming from Washington after the state exhausts the $1.1 billion it received from the federal government to get the nObamacare exchange up and running. And state law prohibits Sacramento from spending any money to keep the exchange afloat.     http://www.ocregister.com/articles/california-658869-covered-state.html
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 A "Nakba" Museum in Washington, DC?  
(Michel Gurfinkiel) - Bshara Nassar — a self-described "peacebuilder and social entrepreneur, a graduate of Bethlehem University, Palestine," with "a master's degree in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University"...leads a campaign called the "Nakba Museum Project of Memory and Hope" in order to "bring the Palestinian refugee story to Washington, DC." The campaign, supported by Nonviolence International and Indiegogo, a crowd-funding organization, was launched in 2014 and seems to enjoy some popularity. A would-be parallel between the "Nakba" (the dislocation of Palestinian Arab society in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of 1947-1948) and the Holocaust (the genocide of Jews operated by Nazi Germany) has been, for decades, a recurrent trope in the anti-Israel narrative. Concurrently, many anti-Israel activists, especially in the Islamic world, claim the Holocaust to be a hoax, while many others urge a "new Holocaust" or a "real Holocaust" against present-day Jews in Israel or elsewhere.     http://www.meforum.org/5200/nakba-museum
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 New Climate Study Blames “The Wiggles”  
(rickwells.us) - The climate models that predict the gloom and doom of world-ending climate change, the premise used to justify our suicidal stampede to the 16th century, are no more effective than holding up a wet finger in the formulations of predictions...There are just too many variables and too many complex calculations for them to be up to the task even if the desire truly were an objective determination of man’s impact on the climate. It seems that man has some new competition for the role of villain in the climate debate from the obvious suspect, natural variability. A new study out of Duke University injects a new unknown into the debate over temperature fluctuations, what they call “climate wiggles.” They report their study to be based upon records of the last 1,000 years, which would cover both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. The inclusion of that data should have completely laid to rest the false claims of Michael Mann, his hockey stick and his masters at the IPCC. Curiously, none are mentioned in the article.     http://www.rickwells.us/new-climate-study-blames-the-wiggles-for-overstated-warming-that-hasnt-happened-but-still-might/
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 280 High School Students Just Told nObama To Shove It   
(easelzippers.us) - 280 high schoolers – the entire junior class of Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington – have effectively told President nObama and his band of progressive buffoons that they can take their Common Core and shove it...When state testing began on Tuesday, not a single junior showed up on campus to participate, as the entire student body had collectively decided to exercise their legal right to opt out of the ‘Smarter Balanced’ exams. “They didn’t skip school all day,” commented district spokeswoman Stacy Howard, according to the Seattle Times. “They just didn’t show up during the testing period.”     http://weaselzippers.us/221746-280-high-school-students-just-told-obama-to-shove-it-in-an-epic-way
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 Polar Bears Put Lie to Warmist Propaganda  
(fixthisnation.com) - No animal has been the focus of more climate change propaganda than the mighty polar bear. Making its home in the Arctic Circle, this proud beast has come to stand as a symbol for man’s irresponsible attitude towards the environment.Our thoughtless exploitation of fossil fuels is causing the ice caps to melt into the ocean, shrinking the bear’s habitat until there’s ultimately nothing left. For our greed and convenience, polar bears will suffer. According to a new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, though, concerns over polar bears have been blown out of proportion. You might even say they’ve been entirely made up. In Twenty Good Reasons Not to Worry About Polar Bears, author Susan Crockford – an evolutionary biologist with 35 years of experience – sets our fears at ease. With a global population of at least 25,000, polar bears are more numerous than they were 40 years ago. Even for the subpopulations in decline, the cause is thought to be overharvesting rather than melting sea ice. Crockford makes her case thoroughly, concluding that fluctuations in sea ice will do little damage to polar bear populations. She notes that labeling them a “threatened” species is dependent entirely on predictions, many of which fail to consider the bear’s environmental flexibility. “The truth is,” she writes, “polar bears are doing well despite dramatic declines in summer sea ice, for one simple reason: polar bears don’t need ice in late summer/early fall as long as they are well-fed in the spring.”     http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/polar-bears-put-lie-to-warmist-propaganda/
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Hillary, Chelsea and Bill Clinton
 Wall Street analyst uncovers Clinton Foundation fraud  
(Jerome R. Corsi) - The Bill, Hilly, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation – already under scrutiny for foreign donations – is now being accused of fraudulent and possibly criminal mismanagement...Over the past six weeks, Wall Street financial analyst and investor Charles Ortel has shared with WND, prior to publication, the results of his six-month, in-depth investigation into what he characterizes as an elaborate scheme devised by the Clintons to enrich themselves. Through their foundation, Ortel contends, the Clintons have defrauded an unsuspecting international public of hundreds of millions of dollars for personal gain.     http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/wall-street-analyst-uncovers-clinton-foundation-fraud/


 
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Could You Spot 
a Potential School Shooter?
Alan Caruba
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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - In April 1999, we were all stunned by the news that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had attacked and killed students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and, more recently, in December 2012, that Adam Lanza, after killing his mother at home, then massacred twenty-six staff and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. These events evoke dread of potential events, a quest to understand why they occurred, and ways to avoid further comparable killings.

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     Peter Langman has authored “School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators.” It offers very little comfort, but only because this psychologist, widely recognized for  his expertise, is refreshingly honest.

     “Many people seek to reduce school shootings to a bite-sized explanatory chunk, but the phenomenon defies easy analysis,” says Langman. “There is no one cause of school shootings, there is no one intervention that will prevent school shootings, and there is no one profile of a school shooter.”

     He offers a wealth of information about forty-eight shooters He divides them into “Psychopathic shooters” whom he describes as “profoundly narcissistic, arrogant, and entitled; they lacked empathy, and met their needs at other’s expense” and ”psychotic shooters” who “suffered from schizophrenia or a related disorder. They were out of touch with reality to varying degrees, experiencing hallucinations or delusions.”

     “Unlike the psychopathic and psychotic shooters, who generally came from well-functioning, intact families, traumatized shooters endured chronic abuse as children. They grew up in violent, severely dysfunctional homes.” Most fell into the first two categories.

     I would like to offer the reader some comfort that school shooters can be “spotted” in advance, but in most of the cases that Langman cites, they looked like everyone else in any school. Only if one of them was to confide his plan was there any opportunity to intervene and then only if he was reported.

     Among the psychopathic category “at least 75 percent (nine out of twelve) had body issues. Many of these physical characteristics had a direct bearing on perceived manliness, including short stature, thin build, chest deformity, and fear of sterility” leading Langham to suggest a link between feeling weak or damaged and extreme narcissism. It is widely believed that bullying is linked to these events, but Langham notes that while about forty percent were harassed only one targeted a bully. While there is concern these days about bullying in schools, it is mostly due to a heightened awareness, not because there is more or less of it than has ever existed.

     One thing does stand out, however, “nearly all shooters had bad educational experiences, including academic difficulties (failing classes, repeated grades, not graduating) or disciplinary problems…at least 92 percent had negative academic or disciplinary experiences.” And then there’s this: “At least 38 percent of shooters had relatives who worked or volunteered in schools.”

     Another common factor was that “at least half of the perpetrators engaged in substance abuse (illegal drugs, prescription drugs, or alcohol.) In addition, “at least 42 percent of the shooters had a history of legal troubles, including arrests, contempt of court, and loss of a driver’s license.”

     “Many shooters had trouble getting or holding jobs.” This was particularly true of the older shooters. Charles Whitman, an American engineering student at the University of Texas, gained infamy when in August 1966 he killed his wife and mother in their homes and later that day went to the Austin campus where he killed sixteen people and wounded 32 others over the course of ninety minutes, firing from the observation deck of the main building before being killed by an Austin police officer.

     To academic and employment problems, add romantic failures. “Most shooters either failed to establish any romantic or sexual relationships or else suffered breakups or rejections that contributed to their anguish and anger.”

     It should surprise no one that a number of the shooters “had specific role models for violence, including serial killers, mass murders, and other school shooters.” Most of them were psychotic, whereas the psychopaths “felt no need to attach themselves to a source of power; they the source of power.”

Out of this densely documented book Langham concludes “There is no one way to prevent school shootings.” What also emerges is the fact that “Most school shooters leave a trail of warning signs that are either not noticed or not responded to.”

     Many of the shooters came from families that owned guns and used them for hunting or sport shooting. They had little reason to regard them as instruments with which to kill people other than their own twisted psychological interpretation.

     What I came away with was the conclusion that the shooters are people we would all easily identify as “losers.” Beyond that, there is no specific way of identifying them, only suspicions of their capability to do the unthinkable.
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